The Nicodemus enterprise., 1887-08-17
FOREIGN.

The Colorado beetle has invaded Germany
and is destroying vast fields of crc
The crimes act has been proclaimed. IT q
to be enforced in AL the countries ercens
Austria.
William o'Brien, editor of the United Ire
land, wiz inaugurate scheme to build buts
for the eyicted tenants.
The ship Firth, of Gina, Scotland, has been
lost in cyclone In Java waters. The entire
crew, numbering twenty-five, persisted.
Advices from Sicily say that fugitives from
CataRia are spreading cholera throughout the
island. Business Is at 8 standstiu eyerv-
where.
1t is reported that Russia is secretly nego
tiating with the governor OF China Turkestan
for permission to pass troops across the
country.
Gen. Van Dersmissen, of the Belgian
army, created q sensation by speech attack
ing parliament for refusing to increase the
Belgian army.
The coroner's jury has rendered a verdict
that the failure by the conductor to test the
air breaks before leaving Port Stanley was the
cause OF the terrible disaster at st. Thomas,
Ontario.
The house of commons went formally in
body to the house of lords Tuesday afternoon,
where royal assent was given to the Irish
crimes act amendment bill, and 1t was thus
made law of the realm.
At the inquest in connection with the Sta
Thomas railway disaster, witnesses swore that
the engineer was under the influence of
liquor and unfit to control the train; also tina.
the conductor had been drinking, though not
intoxicated.
A collision occurred st Spithead Tuesday
between the British ironclads Ajax and De.
VISITATION. The Devastation was consider.
ably damaged and is leaking fast. She is
double screw iron turret ship, armor plated,
of I, $3.50 tons, and $3.50 horse power.
There have been severe snow storms in the
Swiss Alps. Six tourists, including three
sons Of the director of Zurich college, have
been lost on Jungfray. Several parties have
been seat out to rescue them, but their eff
forts have not proved successful.
Much military activity is reported at Metz
The charging of forts and evolutions of
troops are proceeding constantly. The work
is conducted at night by the aid of electric
light. The balloon department is experiment.
ing with view of trying the destructive lef-
feet of dynamite hurled down upon forts from
balloons.
Wednesday night Mrs. W. B. Mills, her two
daughters and sister-in-law, went into the
lake near Andren, Ontario, to battle. One of
the daughters got beyond her depth and the
others went to her rescue. All except the
young daughter were drowned.
From Belfast, Dublin, Liverpool, and also
from cities on this side Of the water, come
news of rioting and wild demonstl atoms on
Orange day, Tuesday. Irishmen enjoyed
themselves to an inordinate degree, and
broken skulls and bruises from rocks and
sheIalahs were very common wherever Orange
men displayed their insignia.
A dispatch from Vienna to the Temps SAYS.
The Bulgarian government is intercepting
kilograms to and from the Bulgarian capital.
There have been violent scenes In the
sobranje, members Of the opposition, incIud-
ing ex-Premier Radoslaroff, being forcibly
expelled. The troops at Rustchuk made
hostile demonstration against Ferdinand of
Saxe.Coburg. Led by officers of the army
they paraded the streets uttering cries of
"LoDg live Russia"